Zo Obradovic
Senior Director Machine Learning, Basketball R&D at National Basketball Association (NBA)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZo Obradovic is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building high-performance engineering and ML systems across sports, media, and finance. Currently Senior Director of Machine Learning for NBA Basketball R&D, Zo focuses on automated officiating and brings a deep background in real-time, sub-millisecond data synchronization from a decade of building biomechanics and cloud infrastructure for the Philadelphia Phillies. Previously a VP Engineering at VSCO, Zo scaled teams and systems to support billions of monthly image views and led developer tooling, CI/CD, and large-scale data pipelines. His career spans founding-engineer roles and enterprise architecture at major banks, where he delivered high-throughput trading systems and global technology programs that saved tens of millions. Known for breaking silos and bootstrapping communities—founding the MLB Engineering Conference with cross-club participation—he combines hands-on systems engineering in Python/Go/Ruby and cloud platforms with strategic leadership. An early adopter of novel security and biometric PKI approaches, Zo blends deep engineering craft with a knack for shipping pragmatic, performance-first solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Purdue UniversityS.M. Computer Science, S.M. Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
obradovic/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:159 pushes in 9 years 4 months
obradovic/awair-command-line
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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